Cast
Navid Negahban
Acting
Cast
Navid Negahban
Known for
Acting
From
Mashhad, Iran
Biography
Navid Negahban is an Iranian-American actor, producer, and director whose work spans four decades, three continents, and over 166 credits in film, television, and video games. Born in Mashhad, Iran, he discovered theater at eight years old. He left Iran in 1985, traveling through Turkey and Bulgaria before arriving at a refugee camp in Ingelheim, Germany, where he applied for asylum. He spent eight years performing with the Rheinland-Pfalz Theater in Kaiserslautern before moving to the United States in 1993. He is fluent in Persian, English, and German. He is best known for playing Abu Nazir in Showtime's Homeland (2011โ2013), Amahl Farouk / Shadow King in FX's Legion (2017โ2019), The Sultan in Disney's live-action Aladdin (2019), General Abdul Rashid Dostum in 12 Strong (2018), Sheikh Al-Obodi in American Sniper (2014), Faraz Hamzad in FX's The Old Man (2022โ2024), and Abbas Mansuri in Netflix's The Night Agent (2025). As a producer, his film Baba Joon won five Ophir Awards including Best Picture at the Israeli Film Academy. As a director, his short film The Apple Tree won Best Short Film at the Japan Indies Film Festival (2025). He received a BAFTA Games Award nomination for Best Performer for his work on 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (2017). He is represented by Innovative Artists. Official website: https://navidnegahban.com
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7.1
MOVIE2019
Aladdin
as Sultan
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7.4
MOVIE2014
American Sniper
as Sheikh Al-Obeidi
MOVIE2026
The Fix
as Qasim
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6.4
MOVIE2017
American Assassin
as Minister Behurz
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7.3
MOVIE2009
Brothers
as Murad
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6.4
MOVIE2018
12 Strong
as General Dostum
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6.8
MOVIE2023
Kandahar
as Mohammad 'Mo' Doud
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5.8
MOVIE2005
Pretty Persuasion
as Mr. Azzouni
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6.5
MOVIE2007
Charlie Wilson's War
as Refugee Camp Translator
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6.7
MOVIE2023
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
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6.3
MOVIE2016
Sniper: Ghost Shooter
as Mothershed
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5.5
MOVIE2011
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
as Dr. Robert Stadler
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7.7
MOVIE2009
The Stoning of Soraya M.
as Ali
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6.1
MOVIE2009
Powder Blue
as Doctor Brooks
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6.5
MOVIE2017
Sand Castle
as Kadeer
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7.0
MOVIE2017
Brain on Fire
as Dr. Najjar
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7.0
MOVIE2023
Sitting in Bars with Cake
as Isaac
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6.7
MOVIE2017
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
as Mehran (voice)
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6.4
MOVIE2014
Words and Pictures
as Rashid
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5.5
MOVIE2017
Damascus Cover
as Sarraj
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10.0
MOVIE2000
Boundaries
as Trombonist
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5.6
MOVIE2007
Broken
as Keith
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5.3
MOVIE2013
The Power of Few
as Sahel
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5.1
MOVIE2003
War Stories
as Al Qaeda Rebel at Bridge
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6.0
MOVIE2022
Tehranto
as Narrator (voice)
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7.2
MOVIE2007
Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses
as Sheik Ahmad
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5.1
MOVIE2009
Dead Air
as Abir
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6.8
MOVIE2015
Baba Joon
as Itzhak
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4.4
MOVIE2003
Saving Jessica Lynch
as Fedayeen Colonel
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6.8
MOVIE2019
In Full Bloom
as The Shepherd (voice)
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7.0
MOVIE2010
Heal
as Abdul
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5.3
MOVIE2016
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
as Mohammad Mohammad-Mohammadi
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3.9
MOVIE2005
The Fallen Ones
as Ammon
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4.5
MOVIE2013
The Moment
as Malik Jamil
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5.7
MOVIE2024
Am Abgrund
as Tofik Gasimov
MOVIE2017
Becoming the Enemy
as Victor Daniels
MOVIE2009
Diplomacy
as Iranian Foreign Minister
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2.0
MOVIE2007
Richard III
as Sir James Tyrrel
MOVIE2009
The Ambassador's Wife
as Ambassador
MOVIE2021
The First Goodbye
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5.0
MOVIE2009
Stellina Blue
as Amir Keshavarz
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2.0
MOVIE2017
Price for Freedom
as Victor Daniels
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8.0
MOVIE2023
In the Garden of Tulips
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5.6
MOVIE2015
Day One
as Dr. Nasir
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3.8
MOVIE2021
Dark Corners
as Karim
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3.5
MOVIE2008
Djinn
as Djinn
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2.0
MOVIE2017
Osprey
as Adam Zakaria
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9.0
MOVIE2017
Carving a Life
as Dr. Kasem
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4.4
MOVIE2018
Saat des Terrors
as Kashif Baqri
MOVIE2019
London Arabia
as Mo
MOVIE2009
Liberation
as Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi